Loder and Bayley, in association with Harris, Lange and Partners, were commissioned to prepare the designs, with Jan van der Molen as engineer in charge.

[1] The proposal met with some controversy, with eighteen appeals being made to the Building Regulations Committee before approval was finally granted.

van der Molen's design of sophisticated hyperbolic-paraboloidal platforms, was described as ...saucer-shaped flowerpots on columns, interconnected to form arches.

Excavations involved substantial earthworks to retain the lawn at the same level of the 'Old Quad' building which was the historic core of the university.

[citation needed] The car park was used as setting for a ballet sequence in an ABC television broadcast, a number of student film projects and art installations,[4] has been featured in many architectural publications and exhibitions,[5] and for the police garage scene in the first Mad Max movie.